John Lohmeyer, the T10 Chair, called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m., Thursday January 17, 2008. He thanked Curtis Stevens of Western Digital for hosting the meeting.

John said that INCITS subgroup membership forms and the T10 document subscription forms are available on the meeting web site. He said that people should use these forms to ensure the INCITS Secretariat has the latest membership information. These forms should be mailed directly to the INCITS Secretariat.

As is customary, the people attending introduced themselves. Attendance See Meeting Attendees. was taken electronically via the meeting web site.

2. Approval of Agenda

No additions/changes were made to the draft agenda.

John Lohmeyer moved and Ralph Weber seconded that the agenda be approved. In the absence of any objections, the motion passed unanimously.

No items were added or modified in the agenda during the course of the meeting.

3. Attendance and Membership

The membership requirements were reviewed. INCITS rules permit one vote per organization. An individual from a new organization must attend two out of three consecutive plenary meetings. He/she may apply for voting membership the second meeting via a letter to the Chair of T10. The individual may begin voting at the beginning of his/her second meeting. People who continue to attend T10 meetings are expected to join T10 and to pay INCITS Service Fees.

To maintain membership, organizations must pay the INCITS Service Fee ($1200 per year).

There are also minimum attendance requirements to maintain voting membership on T10. If a member organization fails to attend two of the last three T10 meetings, they are warned that failing to attend the next T10 meeting would result in their membership being terminated.

The Chair said he had sent emails to 6 people from 4 organizations informing them that the organization's membership was in jeopardy due to non-attendance (see 07-509r0) and that their membership would be terminated if they did not attend this meeting. The following organizations were in attendance jeopardy:

Adaptec, Inc.

FCI

General Dynamics

Iomega Corp.

All organizations in attendance jeopardy were present, except:

Adaptec, Inc.

That organization had its representatives changed to Advisory (non-voting) status.

John called for requests to join the committee. No organizations joined at this meeting.

The T10 membership during the meeting was 39 organizations, down from the 40 member organizations extant at the time the meeting was convened. Enclosure (1) is the list of the people present at the meeting and enclosure (3) is the current T10 membership list.

John Lohmeyer reminded members that failure to vote on two out of the last three letter ballots also would result in membership jeopardy. Accelerated and personnel letter ballots are not included in letter ballot jeopardy calculations. The current letter ballot jeopardy status is as shown:

John Lohmeyer moved and Ralph Weber seconded that the minutes be approved as written. In the absence of any objections, the motion passed unanimously.

5. Document Distribution

Members who have any problems with their mailing subscription should deal directly with Barbara Bennett (bbennett@itic.org) (202) 626-5743. A subscription form is included on the meeting disk.

John Lohmeyer requested that all documents for the next mailing be uploaded to the T10 web site by 10:30 a.m. Mountain time on Thursday January 24, 2008. Documents received after this time may go into a subsequent mailing.

John reminded the committee of the requirements for document submission. Since T10 meets its document retention requirements by preparing mailings, documents included in the mailing must be suitable for archiving. This means that Portable Document Format (PDF) and/or native-format electronic originals with proper identification must be submitted.

People can obtain T10 document numbers for new and revised T10 documents by filling out a web form at http://www.t10.org/members/. The assigned T10 document number will be sent to the requestor by e-mail. The requestor may then reply to this email, including the document to be posted as an attachment. The document will be automatically posted on the T10 web site.

T10 members can complete this entire process using their personal T10 password. John explained that members who do not know their password should surf to the above URL and click on the "forgot password" link to have their password sent to them via e-mail.

John noted that non-members can also use the above document number process, but their requests will require approval by an administrator.

Minutes are available on the T10 World Wide Web page (see below), and are distributed to the T10 Reflector.

To be added to the T10 Reflector, send an e-mail to majordomo@t10.org with the line 'subscribe t10' in the message body.

The INCITS Secretariat maintains a World Wide Web page at:

http://www.incits.org/.

LSI Corp. maintains a web site on behalf of T10 on a server donated by the SCSI Trade Association at:

John Lohmeyer explained that this is a regular agenda item to identify any potential patent issues with developing standards and technical reports.

For additional information on ANSI procedures and the ANSI patent policy, please see the INCITS web page at http://www.incits.org/call.htm. The contact for INCITS patent issues is Lynn Barra (lbarra at itic dot org) or (202) 626-5739. Gene Milligan prepared a useful "Handy dandy Technical Committee's Patents Guide", which is available at ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.99/99-291r0.pdf.

John Lohmeyer presented a summary of the ANSI patent policy prepared by Gary Robinson. The summary is also included on the Rules and Procedures (plus Patent Information) page on the T10 web site.

Mark Seidel reminded the committee that a statement of the Intel patent policy can be found in T10/01-041r0.

John asked that anyone who knows of other applicable patents to contact him.

There were no other responses to the call for patents other than those mentioned above.

7. Review of Old Action Items

678 John Lohmeyer will notify the INCITS secretariat that T10 has reviewed the FDIS, 1.25.13.11.33 SPC-3 14776-453, and recommends that the JTC1 TAG vote to approve said FDIS. Complete.

683 John Lohmeyer will notify the INCITS secretariat that T10 recommends that the SC25 TAG contribute a NWIP to SC25 for SAT, T10/07-500r0, as project 1.25.13.__.___, 14776-921, to mark YES on each of the 6 questions, define Gary S Robinson as Project Editor in question 4, normal standard development track is proposed in question 7, and when the NWIP ballot is available; to vote Approve. Complete.

684 John Lohmeyer will notify INCITS that T10 requests that project T10/1740-D (SDI) be withdrawn. Complete.

685 John Lohmeyer will forward the UAS project proposal (07-400r1) to INCITS for further processing. Complete.

686 Rob Elliott will prepare SES-2 r19. Complete.

687 John Lohmeyer will conduct a Letter Ballot on forwarding SES-2 r19 to first Public Review. Complete.

8. Project Status Reports

8.1 Project Status Summary and INCITS Liaison [Lohmeyer]

John Lohmeyer said that the current T10 project status summary was included on the meeting web site and will be included in the mailing as usual.

8.1.1 INCITS Antitrust Guidelines

All T10 members should be aware of the INCITS antitrust guidelines available at http://www.incits.org/inatrust.htm.

John reminded committee members that all persons present at a T10 meeting are responsible for identifying potential violations of the antitrust guidelines and reporting them to the chair. Discussions of the following topics are considered sensitive:

· Any company's prices or pricing policies;

· Specific R&D, sales and marketing plans;

· Any company's confidential product, product development or production strategies;

· Whether certain suppliers or customers will be served;

· Prices paid to input sources; or

· Complaints about individual firms or other actions that might tend to hinder a competitor in any market.

George Penokie reported that work is in progress on resolving SAM-4 letter ballot comments. He requested three conference calls to further the work. He noted that interim revisions of SAM-4 will be posted to reflect comments resolutions as they progress.

Ralph Weber reported that SPC-4 r12 incorporating all approved proposals from the July, September, and November meeting weeks had been posted within the last seven days. He stated that r13 will be posted sometime in February.

Mark Overby reported that a SAT-2 working group meeting was held December 10 in Kirkland, WA (minutes in 08-060r0). A SAT-2 working group meeting is planned for February 22 in Lake Forest, CA with T13.

David Black moved that 07-459r4 be approved for inclusion in SAM-4, SPC-4, and SBC-3; that 07-454r5 be approved for inclusion in SPC-4, SBC-3, SSC-3, and SMC-3. Erich Oetting seconded the motion. The motion passed on a vote of 24:0:4:11=39.

John Geldman moved that 08-057r0 be approved for inclusion in SPC-4. Ralph Weber seconded the motion. The motion passed on a vote of 7:4:20:8=39.

Mark Evans and Rob Elliott reviewed 08-041r1 (Use period as decimal separator in T10 standards) [Elliott] a proposal recommended for the T10 Style Guide and all active T10 standards.

Rob Elliott moved that 08-041r1 be approved for the T10 Style Guide and all active T10 standards. John Lohmeyer seconded the motion. The motion passed on a vote of 14:5:8:12=39.

693 John Lohmeyer and/or Gary Robinson will notify INCITS that T10 has reviewed the FDIS, 1.25.13.11.47 FCP-3 14776-223, and recommends that the JTC1 TAG vote to approve said FDIS.

14. Meeting Schedule

The next plenary meeting of T10 will be Thursday March 13, 2008 in Raleigh, NC at the Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park Hotel (Reservations: 919-941-6000) hosted by Network Appliance. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.

For more information about T10 activities, please contact the following people:

Activity

Contact

Telephone/Email

ADT-2, ADC-2, ADC-3

Paul Stone

(949) 725-1874

paul dot stone at quantum dot com

SES-2, SAS-1.1, SAS-2, BCC, SDI

Rob Elliott

(281) 518-5037

Elliott at hp dot com

MMC-5, MMC-6

Bill McFerrin

(325) 423-1560

billmc37 at ctesc dot net

SBP-3

Peter Johansson

(510) 527-3926

PJohansson at ACM dot org

SAM-4, SBC-3

George Penokie

(507) 253-5208

gop at us dot ibm dot com

SAT-2

Mark Overby

(425) 417-9412

moverby at nvidia dot com

SMC-2

Erich Oetting

(303) 673-2178

Erich_Oetting at Stortek dot com

SMC-3

Noud Snelder

+31408446108

Noud dot snelder at bdt dot de

SPC-3, SAM-3, SPC-4, OSD-2

Ralph Weber

(214) 912-1373

roweber at acm dot org

SSC-3, FCP-3, FCP-4

Dave Peterson

(763) 268-6139

david dot peterson at brocade dot com

Other Activities

John Lohmeyer

(719) 533-7560

lohmeyer at t10 dot org

The long-term T10 meeting week schedule is:

Dates

Location

Host / Comments

Nov 5-9, 2007

Las Vegas, NV

Hitachi GST

Jan 14-18, 2008

Santa Ana, CA

Western Digital

Mar 10-14, 2008

Raleigh, NC

Network Appliance

May 5-9, 2008

Santa Clara, CA

Nvidia

Jul 14-18, 2008

Anchorage, AK

Emulex

Sep 8-12, 2008

Colorado Springs, CO

LSI Corp.

Nov 3-7, 2008

Jan 12-16, 2009

Lake Mary, FL

Symantec

Mar 9-13, 2009

Oklahoma City, OK

Fujitsu

May 4-8, 2009

Seattle, WA

Microsoft Corp.

Jul 13-17, 2009

Colorado Springs, CO

LSI Corp.

Sep 7-11, 2009

Boston, MA

EMC Corp.

Nov 9-13, 2009

Las Vegas, NV

Hitachi GST

Jan 11-15, 2010

Mar 8-12, 2010

May 3-7, 2010

Jul 12-16, 2010

Sep 13-17, 2010

Nov 8-12, 2010

NOTE: Dates, locations, and hosts shown above in
red italic font
have not been approved by T10 yet and are subject to change.

John Lohmeyer noted that the September 2009 meeting dates need to be changed because September 7, 2009 is Labor Day. John Lohmeyer moved and David Black seconded that the September 2009 meeting dates be changed to one week later, September 14-18, 2009. In the absence of any objections, the motion passed unanimously.

John Lohmeyer asked people interested hosting one of the above meetings to contact him.

John Lohmeyer moved and Mark Overby seconded that T10 approve the 2010 meeting dates. In the absence of any objections, the motion passed unanimously.

14.1 Authorization of Working Group Meetings

John noted that the working group meetings are required to operate under the same voting procedures as does T10 (that is, one vote per organization) and the results of a working group are not binding on the parent committee. Working groups should strive to achieve consensus prior to bringing issues to T10.

Mark Overby moved that T10 authorize the T10-related meetings and events in the list above that had not previously been approved. Erich Oetting seconded the motion. In the absence of any objections, the motion passed unanimously.

15. Adjournment

John Lohmeyer moved and Ralph Weber seconded that the meeting be adjourned. In the absence of any objections, the motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 3:55 p.m. on Thursday January 17, 2008.